Quotes About Shock

He choked, laughed in a shocked way, wept a little more

It was very, very peaceful, and all of a sudden I found myself shaking so hard that I had to sit down on the stream bank. Anytime. It could happen anytime, and just this fast. I wasn't sure which seemed most unreal; the bear's attack, or this, the soft summer night, alive with promise. I rested my head on my knees, letting the sickness, the residue of shock, drain away.

Far be it from me to offer you moral advice. But you are not --repeat not--to be questioning whores in any deeply personal manner. Do I make myself clear? Auntie! he said, pretending shock. The idea! But a broad grin spread across his tattooed face.

He put a hand flat on the counter, as though to steady himself. "I have—bad news." "I can see that," I said, a little tartly. "Sit down, for God's sake, before you fall down." He shook his head like a horse shaking off flies and looked at me. His face was ghastly, shocked and white, and the rims of his eyes showed red.

you do for shock? Hot liquids, blankets. Brandy.

chin—"and there it was. I near beshit myself.

Jesus H. Roosevelt Christ.

Christ! Ye scairt the bowels out of me.

Then came the sound of a single pair of footsteps, and then the whoosh and creak of someone settling heavily into a chair. There was silence for a moment. Then Lord John said "You can get up now, if you wish. I am supposing that you are not in fact prostrate with shock," he added, ironically. "Somehow I suspect that a mere murder would not be sufficient to discompose a woman who could deal single-handedly with a typhoid epidemic.

Shock was giving way to a nervous impulse to laugh. Ken his family? Not likely; and how should he explain that he was the grandson—six times over—of her own brother, Dougal? That he was, in fact, not only Jamie's nephew, but her own as well, if a bit further down the family tree than one might expect?

He had been attacked once, in camp somewhere in Scotland, in the days after Culloden. Someone had come upon him in the dark, and taken him from behind with an arm across his throat. He had thought he was dead, but his assailant had something else in mind. The man had never spoken, and was brutally swift about his business, leaving him moments later, curled in the dirt behind a wagon, speechless with shock and pain.

wasn't crying. Grief and shock simply overflowed; I could not contain them.

I couldn't believe that Donald Trump won. I couldn't believe that we elected an orangutan to front the country.

When I hear the word electric, I think of Pikachu!

It was that stages-of-anger thing. I was shocked and then I got pissed and then I fought like hell … and then I went numb. They called it acceptance, but it wasn't. It's what happens when you have only two choices: live with the monster, or kill yourself.

No one can help but stare at the monster, because horror is a cousin to awe.

You see how it shocks and horrifies you? Our religion is based on the holy books, and you cannot conceive that they're not perfect. You're afraid that if one lie exists, the entire fabric could be rotten. - Ware

Dropped him like a hammered steer in a Chicago slaughterhouse. Boz

Most of these centers had the same basic floor plan; but I was absolutely, one hundred percent unprepared to encounter a freaking swastika!

Oh fug!' Lon cried, suddenly, awfully audible.

no wonder i let queers suck my cock

PRINCIPAL SPENCE?!

said Mr. Granite. "Did you hear about the fire at the circus?" "No," we all shouted.

I thought I was gonna die. "Eeeeeeeekkkkkk!" we all screamed.